Mars Odyssey РMER РMGS РMISR РMLS РMRO РQuikSCAT РRosetta РSpitzer РTES European Remote-Sensing satellite (ERS) was the European Space Agencys first Earth-observing satellite. ... The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena and La Ca̱ada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA, builds and operates unmanned spacecraft for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ... ASTER image ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) is one of five remote sensory devices on board the Terra satellite launched into Earth orbit by NASA in 1999. ... Cassini-Huygens is a joint NASA/ESA/ASI unmanned space mission intended to study Saturn and its moons. ... GALEX GALEX at the pre-launch tests The Galaxy Evolution Explorer is an orbiting space telescope that was launched on April 28, 2003. ... The goal of the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) space mission is to obtain accurate global and high-resolution determination of both the static and the time-variable components of the Earths gravity field. ... This article contains material and/or images that originally came from a NASA website. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Artists concept of the 2001 Mars Odyssey Spacecraft 2001 Mars Odyssey is an unmanned spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars. ... Artists Concept of Rover on Mars (credit: Maas Digital LLC) NASAs Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission is an ongoing unmanned Mars exploration mission, commenced in 2003, that sent two robotic rovers Spirit and Opportunity to explore the Martian surface and geology. ... Artists conception of Mars Global Surveyor (NASA) The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) is a US spacecraft developed by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched November 1996. ... A Microwave Limb Sounder measures (naturally-occurring) microwave thermal emission from the limb (edge) of Earths upper atmosphere. ... NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a multipurpose spacecraft designed to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from orbit. ... Conceptual drawing of the Rosetta orbiter and Philae lander Rosetta is a European Space Agency-led unmanned space mission launched in 2004 intended to study the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ... The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility [SIRTF]) is an infrared space observatory, the fourth and final of NASAs Great Observatories. ... Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer or TES is a satellite instrument designed to measure the state of the earths troposphere. ...

TOPEX/Poseidon – Ulysses – Voyager – WFPC The TOPEX/Poseidon satellite altimeter is a science project to measure the ocean surface topography. ... Ulysses spacecraft Ulysses is an unmanned probe designed to study the Sun at all latitudes. ... Voyager Project redirects here. ... The Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC) was a camera installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

Mariner – Mars Climate Orbiter – Mars Observer – Mars Pathfinder – Mars Polar Lander – NSCAT Illustration of the Deep Impact space probe after impactor separation (artists conception) Deep Impact is a NASA space probe designed to study the composition of the interior of the comet Tempel 1. ... The spacecraft Deep Space 1 was launched October 24, 1998 on top of a Delta II rocket. ... The Deep Space 2 mission, which launched in January 1999 as part of NASAs New Millennium Program, consisted of two highly advanced miniature probes to Mars. ... The Explorer program was the United Statess first successful attempt to launch an artificial satellite . ... Galileo being deployed after being launched by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission Galileo was an unmanned spacecraft sent by NASA to study the planet Jupiter and its moons. ... In its collecting configuration, the Genesis spacecraft exposed collecting wafers to the solar wind. ... The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) was a space-based observatory that performed a survey of the entire sky at infrared wavelengths. ... Magellan spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center The Magellan spacecraft carried out a mission from 1989-1994, orbiting Venus from 1990-1994. ... Launch of Mariner 1 (NASA) The Mariner program was a series of unmanned interplanetary probes designed to investigate Mars, Venus and Mercury. ... Mars Climate Orbiter during tests The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor 98 Orbiter) was one of two spacecraft in the Mars Surveyor 98 program, the other being the Mars Polar Lander (formerly the Mars Surveyor 98 Lander). ... Mars Observer, launched in September 25, 1992, was the first of the Observer series of planetary missions, was designed to study the geoscience and climate of Mars. ... The Mars Pathfinder was launched on December 4, 1996 by NASA aboard a Delta II rocket, just a month after the Mars Global Surveyor was launched. ... Conceptual drawing of the Mars Polar Lander on the surface of Mars. ...

Pioneer – Ranger – Seasat – SIR – SME – SRTM – Stardust – Surveyor – SVLBI – Viking – WIRE The US Pioneer program of unmanned space missions was designed for planetary exploration. ... The Ranger program was a series of unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. ... Seasat (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech) Seasat was the first Earth-orbiting satellite designed for remote sensing of the Earths oceans and had onboard the first spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR). ... The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is a research effort that obtained elevation data on a near-global scale to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth to date. ... An artists rendering of Stardust (NASA image) The Stardust capsule with cometary and interstellar samples landed at the U.S. Air Force Utah Test and Training Range at 10:10 UTC (15 January 2006) in the Bonneville Salt Flats. ... Photograph of Surveyor(3) lunar landing spacecraft taken by Apollo 12 astronauts (descriptions added). ... Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) is a type of astronomical interferometry used in radio astronomy, in which the data received at each antenna in the array is paired with timing information, usually from a local atomic clock, and then stored for later analysis on magnetic tape or hard disk. ... NASAs Viking program consisted of two unmanned space missions to Mars, Viking 1 and Viking 2. ... The Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) was launched in 1999 and intended to be a four-month infrared survey of the entire sky, specifically focusing on starburst galaxies and luminous protogalaxies. ...